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Saturday, January 31, 2009

25 Random Things About Me

I have now been tagged by so many people in the 25 Random Things about me meme that's going round Facebook that I thought I'd better get on with completing it myself. I am not going to tag anyone because I just think that if you want to do it, you'll do it anyway and I don't want to limit myself to 25 people. I want to know more about all of my friends.

Anyway, here goes with my random facts:

1. I got detention during the 1983 election for going canvassing for Bob Maclennan in Caithness and Sutherland when I should have been at school.

2. I met my lovely and long suffering husband Bob when I was working in a youth hostel as a Summer job in 1987.

3. I used to smoke quite heavily - a positive pregnancy test made me give that up immediately and I've never started it up again.

4. Lilies are my favourite flowers.

5. I don't have a degree.

6. I love Brussels Sprouts....

7. ...and hate marmite

8. Back in the day, I used to regularly go to sci-fi conventions. Best ever was Generations at Royal Albert Hall in 1995

9. If you've upset me and want to make amends, a bar of Green and Blacks Maya Gold will go a long way to getting back in my good books.

10. I can't stand anything that slithers along the ground on its belly.

11. I am utterly petrified, to the point of being phobic, of snow and ice.

12. When I was 4, I played a duck in a dancing show and refused to leave the stage at the end of the performance much to the delight of the audience.

13. I was born in Inverness and it's still my favourite place.

14. I love Monet's paintings.

15. I am a trained breastfeeding counsellor

16. When I was a little girl, I threw up on my great Aunt's dog, Cuilin, and have never been allowed to forget it by my second cousin David.

18. My liberal instincts were first awakened when I watched Roots as a child and was so appalled that human beings could enslave other human beings.

19. I went to New York specially to watch Star Trek Generations cos it came out in the US 3 months before it came out here.

20. I couldn't draw to save my life.

21. I don't think you can ever have too much garlic.

22. My favourite meal is the Filet de Boeuf on Croute that I make every New Year.

23. My childhood was very unhappy and I am very aware that I don't want Anna to have the same experiences I did.

24. I have the best friends in the whole world.

25. Absolutely the best thing I have ever done in my whole life is to become a mummy - Anna brightens every single day, just by being her and it's fabulous to watch her grow up to be her own person.

Edit 19:18 because Anna read this and took exception to describing myself as a mum when I am her Mummy.

Edit 02 Feb After lengthy representations from my lovely sister on Facebook, I have decided to add 26 I have a lovely sister who makes my life a delight. Although she was included at 24 too which is high praise for a family member.

And actually, your comment reminds me of a drunken game at a training session years ago that involved people who shall remain nameless to spare their blushes lying on their tummies pushing little yellow rubber ducks along with their noses.